Training Camp Report: Physical Play A Constant Thus Far

During his tenure with the Green Bay Packers, Head Coach Mike McCarthy has implemented a few unorthodox parts to training camp, such as regular night practices and Wednesday rest-and-recover days.

Those elements still exist in 2009, but the way the Packers have been practicing these first four days of training camp, there's nothing newfangled about the on-field work. It's been good ol' fashioned, hard-hitting, physical play from the very first workout, with five of the six practices in full pads prior to the team's first off day on Wednesday.

"This is the most physical camp I've been through so far, and it's only been, how many, three days, four days?" nose tackle Ryan Pickett said. "It's been physical, man. It's like coach has us back in the old-school days. It's helping, though. It's helping everybody out, I think. We're enjoying it, but it's rough."

Seeing players cramp up at times, despite relatively mild summer temperatures, is one indication of the ph..